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Latest fromDylan Cleaver on sport
First for NZ rugby: Non-contact grade starts tonight
Union aims to boost playing numbers by widening rugby's appeal.
Exclusive: End contact sport for kids, experts warn
The long-term dangers of kids playing contact sports could outweigh the benefits.
Dylan Cleaver: How rugby fans are being conned
Rugby fans and refs are being conned. It's time somebody did something about it.
Cleaver: The biggest rugby story of the week (that you haven't heard)
The riches at the top end of our national game contrasts with the poverty at club level.
Cleaver: The biggest World Cup crisis affecting the All Blacks
COMMENT: You can't have a World Cup without a calamity or two.
Forget Tiger Woods - here's the weekend's real sporting miracle
Cleaver: A wild weekend of sport where streaks were enshrined and droughts were broken.
Dylan Cleaver: The massive issues still plaguing schoolboy rugby
Comment: Crisis averted at schoolboy level, but big change needs to happen.
Big Read: Inside NZ's schoolboy rugby crisis
Dylan Cleaver: School rugby shake-up is long overdue as sport's values get trampled.
Auckland school rugby boycott drama to 'explode' again
New bylaws tabled for schools rugby that would limit recruitment.
NZ Cricket on junior reps: 'It's not the right thing to do'
NZC won't force associations to end junior rep cricket but it is a 'live' conversation.
NZR letter reveals alarming message for schoolboy rep rugby
EXCLUSIVE: National body has broken its silence on talent identification and development.
Comment: Obsessed parents the real problem with kids rugby
Dylan Cleaver: Harbour initiative based on clearer thinking than feedback of angry dads.
'PC gone mad': Shock as Auckland junior rep rugby axed
EXCLUSIVE: The union wants to shift kids' rugby from performance to participation.
Why 'live' sport in NZ is dying a slow death
COMMENT: What does the sports stadium of the future look like? It doesn't exist.
Dylan Cleaver: Why Black Caps could be doomed at World Cup
Comment: Black Caps selectors are as confused as their openers about the best way to play.
Midweek Fixture: Referees will decide the World Cup, they always do
England's complaints from Twickenham mirror similar complaints throughout rugby history.
Dylan Cleaver: What Steve Hansen won't show the world
Steve Hansen's game planning is world-class - but it's not his most impressive feature.
Revealed: The worst sports ground in NZ
Cricket on a racecourse infield - it's as bleak as it gets.
All your cricket match-fixing questions answered
Al Jazeera investigation is on one hand compelling, on the other frustratingly incomplete.
Howzat? No pay deal for women T20 cricketers
Major association's bid to pay its female players is not backed.
Best-kept poker secret is 'silent assassin'
A shy Auckland teacher has quietly become one of the country's most feared players.
Midweek Fixture: Biggest questions surrounding All Blacks
The next five tests will answer the questions remaining about the World Cup sqaud.
Meet the tech guru changing the face of sport
Technology will play key role in breaking sporting barriers, says expert, but is it fair?
Watch: When Wilson and Lomu denied a famous Irish schoolboys win
The 1992 NZ schools team included Wilson and Lomu - these Irish kids nearly beat them.
Why we don't need to worry about Crotty
Big symptomatic accidents like Crotty's are not the real problem in collision sports.
Midweek Fixture: Just the Spark sport needs
Fans should hope Spark's vision is grander than just streaming live sport.
Why New Zealand sport is fundamentally broken
NZ sport is fundamentally broken – and we are hitting a tipping point says Dylan Cleaver.
What the hell went wrong with the Hurricanes?
Dylan Cleaver: The Crusaders are excellent, yes, but what exactly are the Hurricanes?
Super Rugby format is gold (but the rest of the tournament is mud)
A staunch defence of the widely derided Super Rugby playoff system.
Why NRL teams should be more like the Warriors
Dylan Cleaver: The Warriors' inconsistency is cause for celebration not condemnation.
Study highlights rugby's weighty problem
Why Kiwi kids are giving up on the game at an alarming rate.
Barrett debate caps a silly week of sport
Dylan Cleaver: From Mickelson's moment to NZ Football's meltdown, it's been a crazy week.
World Cup tribes: England the land of fading hope and late, late glory
A half century of pain has seeped into the bones of England's supporters.